10 Aug 2001 Al   » (Journeyer)

Oops, a weeks worth of stuff nearly...

I was pretty startled to discover on Monday that a mis-configuration on my ISDN Lan Modem meant that inbound traffic was not, as I had thought, being rejected but was in fact being rewritten through the NAT to my Linux box. Various bits of security testing, verifying, and trawling through logs have convinced me that there was no compromise... but I've not paid nearly enough attention to the security of the box. I found this by chance as I attempted to see how the NAT handled SSH traffic in (better than I'd imagined!). Since I need to SSH in I've secured the machine somewhat now :) Various problems with 3com intelligent NAT were overcome in the process.

On Thursday I managed a very uneventful (and remarkably timely) trip to to London to see Ted T'So talk about the past, present and future of Linux as he sees it. It was an entertaining evening and I got to see a few UKUUG conference faces again.

This weekend I have to spend catching up on OU work and perhaps some house hunting... if I can be bothered. If I can't I'll learn some more Java and Exim (which is soon to replace Sendmail on all the machines at work)... oh and it's the balloon fiesta so I'd better go and see some of that too!

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